Seattle and environs are beautiful - I'd love to have a summer home there... but it is too rainy for a southern californian girl like me... If I don't see the sun for more than a day I go nuts!

From a seattle site:
Seattle's weather for 2000 brought dry skies, cool temperatures, and sunshine after a very wet, cool, and cloudy 1999. Sunny and partly-cloudy days outnumbered cloudy days in 2000 --- there were 77 days that had clear sky conditions, 130 days that had partly-cloudy sky conditions, and 159 days that had cloudy sky conditions.

77 days of sunshine... nope, not nearly enough...

Canie